Adam,If that is what you believe Isaiah 44:24 means then you must believe God is claiming that Moses did not lead the children of Israel out of Egypt when he states.Deuteronomy 3:12(NIV) reads:Quote The LORD alone led him;       no foreign god was with him.Isaiah 44:22 is another scripture that speaks against having other God but God and does no…[Read more]

To all,It is God who determined who is saved and who is not.  I can but strive to speak God word on how one can be saved on that day and the Trinitarian tenet is just one more obstacle on the path each of us must travel.  The rest of my answer is based on considering it was Paul who sat by while Steven was murdered and gave his approval and yet w…[Read more]

To all,I have heard some of you advance the hypothesis that the argument over whether God is a unity of three persons or just one individual is important because God instructs us not to have any other God's before us. Though I am convinced that hypothesis is true I also believe we need to learn from the spirit why it is loving ourselves and our…[Read more]

T8,Are you addressing the point I was making?  If so I was going by the New International Version translation of Colossians 1:17.   Though upon hearing what you state I decided to check other versions and found that the same passage is translated in various ways.  Here are some examples.Colossians 1:17(ASV) reads:Quote and he is before all th…[Read more]

Dennison,Since you stated that you did not know much about the new covenant, I fell that will be the best place to start but I will have to have the time and inclination to cover that aspect of scripture in an informative way.  That puts me in the role of a teacher and I do not feel qualified to do it but perhaps I can state the idea more as a…[Read more]

Adam,I do know that is a false-Jewish teaching but I do not know how they can be so certain going by what Scripture actually states. God is the only God so no one exist that can help him do anything as all his creations are at best tool in his hands. I just do not see where God did not use some of his creature creations to create the world and…[Read more]

Marty,I am not sure if we agree about the relationship of the spirit to the Prophets or not due mostly to the fact that some of the servants of Satan have influenced the teachings about the subject thus throwing the matter into dispute.   I do believe the Spirit of God descended on the Prophets but as you say they were not reborn to the same…[Read more]

David The Professor,It is true that the ignorant and corrupt choose to misinterpret the term “love” but compassion for your fellow man and obedience to God are important components of godly love.  If your love does not have those components then it is empty in the eyes of God.   If you really love then you will by your loving nature obey all of t…[Read more]

Shimmer,As far as not sinning I do not say “no one is perfect” for God has the power to do anything and will do it for those who seek him. I do understand that human beings must mature is the spirit of Christ to become perfect and that even those who don’t yet have the spirit must grow in belief to the point where they obtain the spirit. So wh…[Read more]

Shimmer,It does matter as one must believe the Jesus is a human being tempted just like they are but without sin.  This is important because one must believe that God can and will make them righteous as he will if they choose to enter and abide by the new covenant.  That promise of not sinning is the promise of the spirit of righteousnes and if y…[Read more]

David B.The Ten Commandments and all other righteous requirements of the Twelve Tribes of Israel are summed up in the command to love your neighbor as yourself. Therefore if you walk according to the spirit of righteousness that you only receive under the new covenant then you do all that God requires by the nature of the spirit.

davidbfun,I like to be called Kerwin if you were calling me Ken. You are correct that the debate has been going on for thousands of years.Thank you for quoting from Mark 25. I never realized that the passage Jesus quoted from Psalms stated “sense”. Jesus is David's Son in the sense that he is genetically decended from him.In the sense of the…[Read more]

Dennison,I may be drawn to discuss this point in the future but since I seem to be having difficulty communicating my ideas to you at this time so I would like to contemplate on this issue while praying that God to guide me in all things.I hold that Colossians is speaking about the new creation and not about the old one as all of creation will be…[Read more]

WhatIsTrue,Thank you for giving me your definition of evil.  I will state that we have different definitions that we go by.  I consider mine accurate to describe human behavior because those immoral but less than grossly unethical actions sometimes snowball to have a great effect.  Since the potential for harm is there it is benevolent to st…[Read more]

Tim,You are losing the argument because you choose to give into emotion instead of remaining objective and letting reason guide you. This does not benefit you or your readers including myself.I choose to call slavery an employment contract because that is literally what it is. It is not even a point of debate nor is it relevant to whether…[Read more]

Gollamundi,Your chosen source states:Quote The primary reason that Jews do not believe Jesus was the messiah is that the world was not redeemed by Jesus' arrival and deathI happen to know better as God is changing me more each day even as he leads me to the Anointed who teaches me how to find God.   It is my choice to believe God even as Abraham…[Read more]

Dennison,I am sorry but I thought I made myself understandable in that I was pointing out what Colossians 1 states about Jesus in the New International Version and going by your chosen interpretation for that passage.   Since according to you Colossians 1:16-18 addresses the old covenant and I observe that Colossians 1:17 does state that in Jesus…[Read more]

Marty,Jesus’ spirit is directly of heaven and of God and thus Jesus is God’s Son.  Through entering the new covenant those that believe receive and live by the same spirit which comes through Jesus are declared to be son’s of God.   It is the spirit of righteousness that makes one a son of God, Romans 8:15 & Galatians 4:6, though the childre…[Read more]

Dennison,It is true that Jesus created creation anew by choosing to die on the cross, 2 Corinthians 5:17.It is also true if we were in Jesus before entering the new covenant then there would be no reason for him to die on the cross, Ephesians 1:7. So how, before entering the new covenant, could we be in him so all things hold together, Colossians…[Read more]

Whatistrue,I have never meant a good person.  I have meant people who seem to behave more ethically than others but all do or have done one form of evil or another even if that evil is trivial seeming.  If you want to call such individual good then I believe such a loose application of the term is within acceptable grammar standards.I also will n…[Read more]